Our submissions
Since our commencement in 2025, EELC has made submissions and representations to various legislative reviews and MPs:
Submission to the NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislative Review
Submission to the Tasmanian VAD Review Panel
The VAD Experience Around Australia - a paper sent to Northern Territory MPs ahead of debate on the Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill
Other resources
Many other resources are available providing valuable information about the dangers and harms of assisted suicide and euthanasia and about alternative ethical responses to life-limiting illness, disability and suffering. The following is a selection of those resources:
Telehealth for VAD Assessments – an assessment of the many risks of allowing VAD via telehealth by Dr Joanne Wright
Health Professionals Say No! - this site, endorsed by a wide range of health professionals across Australia, includes lists of Resources and Information, Video Links, Podcasts & Recommended Reading, News & Updatesand quotable Comments & Opinions by leading health professionals.
Fatally Flawed Experiments - a comprehensive analysis of the failures and flaws of assisted suicide and euthanasia regimes across Australia and around the world by highly regarded researcher, Richard Egan.
Palliative Care Australia - the site of Australia's "national peak body for palliative care, promoting quality care since 1991".
Australia New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine - "ANZSPM facilitates professional development and support for its members, promotes the practice of Palliative Medicine and advocates for those who work in the field of palliative medicine."
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care - a site providing news and research on all aspects of hospice and palliative care, including a range of resources relating to Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
What happens as we die? a TED talk by English palliative care expert Dr Kathryn Mannix. See also her website, KathrynMannix.com, which includes links to her other talks and to her books and publications, including With the End in Mind and Listen.
The right to die or the right to be killed, a compelling essay by Melbourne doctor and author, Dr Karen Hitchcock.
Care Not Killing - one of the leading UK groups opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide
Australian Care Alliance - a group formed following the passage of the first VAD laws in 2017. The group's site is currently being reconstructed. Also available is an archive of the former Australian Care Alliance site, which contains a range of valuable additional material, including a listing of all the many submissions that ACA has made (although unfortunately the submissions themselves are not all available through the site archive).
Maxim Institute's end of life care material. This NZ research institute has a number of papers on the failures of NZ's euthanasia laws and the needs for better end of life care.
(Note that while each of the above resources has information of value or relevance, EELC's listing of a resource does not imply endorsement of that resource or of all of its contents.)